EnergyHub VP of Business Development Matt Johnson shared with us details of the progress his firm has had deploying its distributed energy resource or DER management system (DERMS) with utility firms to help them see true value from the DERs deployed on their grids in the form of energy management and even voltage response. Of the firm’s 40-plus utility clients, mostly in the US, about 10 are now using the EnergyHub system with batteries deployed in customer premises, and this is up from about zero not too many years ago, he told us. The industry is quickly jumping past the piloting stage with full deployments, and the DERs being used include Wi-Fi enabled water heaters and more, he told us.